I think it still an important program as it covered issue’s no other TV channel would dare cover and watching these issue’s unfold through storylines would be a great way to show people and fans how important it was and how Brookside changed soaps as they are today.

Brookside was a bench mark at the time and still is in many ways, it would be excellent if it made a come back after almost 6 years and show us how things have changed and portray newer and never before mentioned issues on screen as it did in the 80’s and 90’s.

If this is not possible then i think all the episodes should be available for people to watch, i know 2915 episodes are alot but it would pay off in the end.

another suggestion would be to show Brookside on More 4 as this would be equally as great plus increase overall viewership for the channel and overall advertising revenues, that way both viewers and Channel 4 benefit.

While the crew were assembled why not make a film of the Grand Tour in the round over, say, four episodes? Where was the mention of his grandstanding involvement in the Napoleonic or Peninsula Wars? Where his recruitment as an agent for British Intelligence in Malta and subsequent mission in Albania – the only reason to go to Albania, and not mentioned at all? Or his revelations at Beckford’s house in Cintra? Or his confinement in the hell hole of Gibraltar? Or his development as a poet and a peer? Or his privateering adventures in the Aegean?

The historical inaccuracies were annoying as this was a story so easy to get right – all the writers had to do was the read the Fiona MacCarthy biography Rupert Everett was carrying around in the PR shots. What happened to Sardinia and Sicily? Byron visited Greece before Turkey and first arrived on land from the west not by sea from the east; he was agitated about Elgin long before he left London, not as a result of anything that happened in Athens; he never stayed at the British Embassy in Istanbul, and didn’t flounce out of the audience with the sultan, who (Sultan Mahmoud II) wasn’t ‘fearsome’ at all; Hobhouse had already left for England by the time Byron visited Greece for the second time; Byron didn’t swim the Hellespont on the way back from Constantinople but on the way there, and crossed it further downstream; there is absolutely no evidence at all that Donna Josefa cut off her hair in pique at Byron romancing her sister, quite the contrary, and there is no evidence at all that Byron’s manhood was ‘Brazilian’, sub-Brazilian or even from anywhere on planet earth; Ali Pasha was never fighting for Albanian independence – he already owned it and half of Greece as an Ottoman protected fiefdom; and only an act-or could pronounce Ali Pasha as Ali Pash-ar. Only a very ill-mannered actor would try to embarrass the (female Moslem) Rector of Istanbul University on camera with yet another comment on sodomy or HM’s (female) Consul General with a lewd remark about HM’s figure. Cheap shocks, cheap shots.

For sure Byron enjoyed leg-over a-plenty, as no doubt does Rupert Everett, and – shock-horror! – don’t we all? But for Byron and his readers the Grand Tour was about so much more than pubic hairs and peccadilloes, brothels and bathhouses. It’s shame the programme makers chose to concentrate just on Byron’s sexuality and then tabloid it, when it was just part of a whole host of contradictions and variations which made the man as life and legend.